baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2519862-A (GB)
Title: Fishing apparatus and method
Inventor: PELHATE CHRISTOPHE VINCENT
IPC: A01K97/02
Filed: 2013-04-09
Abstract: Fishing apparatus comprises an inflated balloon float 96 attached to a fishing line 98 and fishing rig, and a detonator 100 to rupture the balloon. The detonator 100 is activated by striking the fishing line 98. The inflated float 96 is thereby ruptured by being pierced with a pin mounted within the detonator 100 and which is caused to penetrate the balloon float 96 by the energy of the striking. The balloon float 96 is used to carry the rig through the water until it reaches the desired location, whereupon the detonator 100 is triggered and the balloon deflates. The fishing rig then sinks and takes up its intended position in the water. Apparatus and methods for putting bait or other material into the balloon float 96, such that they are released upon rupturing the balloon, are also provided.
Patent GB-2532424-A (GB)
Title: An almost fair busy lock
Inventor: MARCO GRECO
IPC: G06F9/52
Filed: 2014-11-18
Abstract: A method for managing exclusive control of a shareable resource 812 between a plurality of concurrently executing threads, access to the shareable resource being controlled by a lock 810, the lock maintaining an ordered set of threads requesting ownership of the lock, comprises: a next owning thread 804, in the set of threads, of the lock non-atomically publishing a claim to the lock, the claim comprising a structure 816 capable of being read and written only in a single memory access; the next owning thread of the lock then determining whether it has been pre-empted; responsive to this determination, the next owning thread of the lock acquiring the lock if it has not been pre-empted and retrying acquisition of the lock if it has been pre-empted; and responsive to the next owning thread being pre-empted, a subsequent owning thread 808 acquiring the lock unfairly and atomically consistently modifying the lock such that the next lock owner can determine that it has been preempted. The ordered set may comprise tickets 814. The claim structure may be a union. The method addresses the lock requester pre-emption problem, and associated convoys, which may occur frequently in virtual machine environments.
Patent GB-2524367-A (GB)
Title: Coupling for wire-mesh cable tray sections and a wire-mesh cable tray section
Inventor: RAMOS JUAN JOSE MARTINEZ
IPC: H02G3/06
Filed: 2015-01-20
Abstract: The coupling comprises a plate 12 with ends that can be coupled with transverse rods of the wire mesh tray, whereby the height of the ends is less than the distance between two consecutive longitudinal rods of the wire-mesh tray between which the coupling is housed. One end of the coupling comprises two finger extensions 5 curved towards the same side and, between them, one finger extension 6 curved towards the opposite side. The other end of the coupling comprises a rippled area 7 with at least two half waves 8, each of which is capable of housing a transverse rod of a wire-mesh tray. The invention may also comprise one tray section with at least one coupling. The coupling can be manually installed without tools and can be used when any of the wire-mesh tray sections have been cut to size.
Patent GB-2533977-A (GB)
Title: Training Apparatus
Inventor: RICHARD JAMES BEAVER
IPC: G09B9/00
Filed: 2015-03-04
Abstract: A training apparatus 1 comprises: exercise equipment 5 including a framework 6 and a breaching door 17 mounted in a door frame 71 of the framework. The framework 6 preferably includes a plurality of wheels 93 which may be vertically adjustable relative to the framework 6. A training apparatus (1, fig 1) comprising a structure (3, fig 1) that includes a partition (11, fig 1) with a breaching door (fig 1, 17) and exercise equipment (5, fig 1) mounted to the exterior of the structure (3, fig 1) is also disclosed; the structure (3, fig 1) is preferably a shipping container.
Patent GB-2524906-A (GB)
Title: Lignocellulose conversion processes and products
Inventor: EYAL AHARON
IPC: C12P7/56
Filed: 2012-04-02
Abstract: Processes for converting lignocellulose to feedstock and downstream products are disclosed. The processes include acid treatment of lignocellulose to produce a fermentation feedstock. Downstream products may include acrylic acid-based products such as diapers, paper and paper-based products, ethanol, lactic acid, biofuels such as biodiesel and fuel additives, and detergents. The invention provides a method of making a downstream product from a carbohydrate composition, wherein the carbohydrate composition is a deacidified hydrolyzate of lignocellulose or a product thereof, and wherein the carbohydrate composition comprises carbohydrates; the method comprising using the carbohydrates, within the deacidified hydrolysatc or the product thereof, as a feedstock in a fermentation process. The invention also provides a method for converting lignocellulose to a downstream product, comprising: converting lignocellulose to carbohydrate using an acid as a hydrolysis catalyst; converting the produced lignocellulosic-derived acid hydrolyzate to a deacidified hydrolyzate; and using the carbohydrates, within the deacidified hydrolysate or a product thereof, as a feedstock in a fermentation process.
Patent GB-2520911-A (GB)
Title: Photobioreactor
Inventor: SPICER ANDREW
IPC: C12M3/06
Filed: 2013-09-18
Abstract: A method for non-invasive growth measurement of organisms in an apparatus for growing and harvesting organisms or substances derived from such organisms. The organisms are comprised in an aqueous medium in a vessel, the method comprising the steps of: a) Providing means for measuring the opacity of the aqueous medium in order to estimate a growth rate of the organisms; b) The means for measuring the opacity are arranged in the apparatus such that they are located at predetermined locations relative to the vessel; c) The means for measuring the opacity are calibrated to account for refraction, absorbance and reflection caused by the vessel at the predetermined location. Finally the method also allows for measuring the opacity of the aqueous medium at the predetermined location.
Patent GB-2540624-A (GB)
Title: System and methods for transferring electrical signal or power to a rotatable component
Inventor: QINGFENG XIA
IPC: H01F38/18
Filed: 2015-07-24
Abstract: A non-contact system and method for transferring an electrical signal or power to a rotating component 2, used for example to power sensors 18 to monitor the condition of wind turbines. A magnetic inductive coupling is generated between a non-rotating transmitter coil 16 and a receiver coil 14, which is fixed to and rotates with the component 2. At least one of the coils 14, 16 encircles a part of the rotating component and its axis of rotation 5. The coils may overlap, and form a coaxial arrangement with the rotating component 2. The mutual inductance between the coils may be independent of the angle of rotation of the component 2. A unit 20 may transfer signals or power from the transmitter coil 16 to the receiver coil 14 using non-resonant or resonant magnetic induction.
Patent GB-2542818-A (GB)
Title: Methods and systems for reserving a transmission opportunity for a plurality of wireless communication devices belonging to a collaborative group
Inventor: ROMAIN GUIGNARD
IPC: H04W84/12
Filed: 2015-09-30
Abstract: There are provided methods and systems for reserving a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for a plurality of wireless communication devices belonging to a collaborative group in a wireless communication network comprising a sending node STA1, an addressee node STA2 and other nodes STA3, STA4. A node STA3 detects at least one request control frame (RTS 1210) for initiating a TXOP reservation for the collaborative group, each RTS being sent on a sub-channel 300-1 to 300-4, by the sending node STA1 to the addressee node STA2, the RTS calling for a first response control frame (CTS 1220) from the addressee node STA2. Node STA3 determines, based on said at least one detected RTS and any detected first CTS, a sub-channel belonging to the composite channel on which no first CTS has been sent and sends a second CTS 1230 on said determined second sub-channel to a collaborative node STA4, for exchanging data on it during the TXOP.
Patent GB-2526241-A (GB)
Title: Self triggering lost circlation control in carbonate formation
Inventor: KARALE CHAITANYA MALLIKARJUN
IPC: C09K8/512
Filed: 2014-04-10
Abstract: A self-triggering, in-situ crosslinking fluid system is provided for controlling lost circulation for drilling in a carbonate formation. Methods of drilling a well include the steps of: (A) forming a drilling fluid comprising an aqueous phase, wherein the aqueous phase comprises: (i) water; (ii) acid, wherein the acid is at least sufficiently strong and in at least a sufficient concentration such that the aqueous phase has an initial pH of less than about 2; (iii) a viscosity-increasing agent; and (iv) a crosslinker, wherein the crosslinker is selected or controlled to crosslink the viscosity-increasing agent at a pH range anywhere in a range of about 1.5 to about 6.5 and that is at least higher than the initial pH of the aqueous phase; and (B) drilling with the drilling fluid to form a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation.
Patent GB-2536536-A (GB)
Title: Mass correction
Inventor: MARTIN RAYMOND GREEN
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2016-01-08
Abstract: A method of mass spectrometry comprises chromatographically separating a sample containing matrix components and one or more analyte components, and analysing the sample at a plurality of retention times to obtain sample data. A library of matrix data is also provided comprising one or more physico-chemical properties (e.g. mass to charge ratio) of the matrix components as a function of retention time. One or more error values (e.g. mass to charge ratio drift) as a function of retention time is calculated based on a comparison between the sample data and the matrix data. The error value may be used to correct mass spectral data relating to the analyte components, and the matrix components may be used as an internal lock mass for the analyte components. A method of calculating one or more error values associated with a given spatial location or pixel in imaging mass spectrometry (e.g. MALDI, DESI) based on the comparison of matrix and sample data is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2549299-A (GB)
Title: Electroacoustic transducer
Inventor: LIONEL WILLIAM JOHN KENT
IPC: H04R17/00
Filed: 2016-04-12
Abstract: The electroacoustic transducer comprises a first electrode 62, a second electrode 64 and a piezoelectric material (60, fig 2) at least partially sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode. A flexible electrical connector 80 in electrical connection with the first or second electrode at discrete points 82 around a periphery of that electrode, the discrete points being distributed about a substantial portion of that periphery. The transducer is contemplated for use in an acoustic power and data transmission system. This acoustic system may be used in conjunction with an optical transmission system when an optical aperture 16 is made in the piezoelectric material.
Patent GB-2551467-A (GB)
Title: Protective sleeve
Inventor: LEWIS BINGHAM
IPC: A61F13/00
Filed: 2016-04-13
Abstract: A metallic mesh sleeve (1) for inhibiting access to a region of an appendage (2) of a being comprising an elongate drawstring (10, 10') interlaced within the mesh thereby to reduce the size of a portion of the sleeve (1) to at least partially conform to the size and/or shape of the appendage (2). The sleeve may be open at both ends or open at only a single end. The mesh may be folded, rolled or beaded over itself to conceal the mesh ends. The mesh may be knitted; it may be made of a corrosion resistant metal, such as stainless steel; the yarn may include an antibacterial element; the yarn may comprise a silver alloy. Method of use, which may protect from lick granuloma lesion, is also claimed. The string may be tied or knotted to hold the sleeve or sock in place.
Patent GB-2539537-A (GB)
Title: Power conversion device
Inventor: Kentarou Mae
IPC: H02M1/00
Filed: 2016-04-14
Abstract: A power conversion device includes positive and negative power conductors 901, 911 for connection to a direct current power supply, output conductors 921 to provide a three-phase alternating current output to a load such as a motor and control input conductors 932, 942 to receive control signals for switching modules 21-26 from a control circuit board 3. The power, output and control input conductors are flat plate shaped conductors which are laminated together with insulation materials therebetween, are bonded to each other and are fixed as an integrated conductor member or bus bar 1 to the switching modules and a smoothing capacitor 4.
Patent GB-2538422-A (GB)
Title: System and methods for predicting wave impacts with a watercraft, and watercraft control systems and methods
Inventor: TIMOTHY MUNN
IPC: B63H25/00
Filed: 2014-06-10
Abstract: A control system 100 for a watercraft 10 comprises a subsystem 110 for predicting wave impacts to the watercraft and a control unit 120. The subsystem for predicting wave impacts with the watercraft comprises a sensor (220, Fig 2) configured to detect signals reflected and /or scattered by waves on a water surface, and a processing unit (310, Fig 3) configured to generate wave prediction data indicating the predicted times of arrival of waves at the watercraft from the detected signals. The processing unit comprises a wave detection unit (330, Fig 3) and a prediction unit (340, Fig 3) that comprises a wave tracking unit (342, Fig 3) that uses an alpha-beta tracker to track the locations of waves over time. The control unit is configured to generate control signals for a throttle and/or a steering device 130 of the watercraft, in response to the wave prediction data, before the predicted time of arrival, to reduce the effect of the impact of the wave with the watercraft.
Patent GB-2543150-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle seat assembly
Inventor: ANDREW CHATWIN
IPC: B60N2/427
Filed: 2016-09-02
Abstract: The vehicle seat assembly (1, figure 1) includes a chassis (7, figure 2B) and a pivotally mounted backrest support (5, figure 1). A recline control mechanism 26 having a pinion gear 28 and a drive rack 29 is provided to control the recline angle of the backrest support 5. The recline control mechanism 26 having reaction means for maintaining engagement of the drive rack 29 with the pinion gear 28. The recline control mechanism 26 includes a deformable link (30, figure 7) connected to the drive rack 29 for controlling the transmittal of a force from the backrest support 5 to the chassis 7. The assembly may include at least one constraining member 44 for constraining out of plane deformation of the deformable link 30. The deformable link 30 may be positioned between a constraining member 44 and a lateral frame member 16 of the chassis 7. The constraining member 44 may provide the reaction means. The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle incorporating a vehicle seat assembly.
Patent GB-2546583-A (GB)
Title: Automated delivery device and handling method
Inventor: PAUL CLARKE
IPC: G07F17/12
Filed: 2016-11-21
Abstract: An autonomous delivery vehicle 1, 100 comprises storage compartment(s) suitable for receiving delivery container(s), attaching means 114 for releasably securing the delivery container(s) in or to the storage compartment(s), and means for releasing the attaching means from a position remote to the vehicle, enabling the container(s) to be dispensed from the vehicle in the absence of a user. The vehicle may comprise means for identifying a dispensing location (e.g. GPS), means for dispensing the carried payload to a storage area which is releasably secured by locking means. The vehicle body may be propelled under remote control using motorised rolling means, e.g. wheels (5, figure 1b), tracks (25, figure 5) or set of wheels for climbing stairs (35, figures 6a, 6b). Alternatively, the vehicle may be a quadcopter UAV or an airborne drone platform (100, figure 7a) comprising ducted rotor fans (112). A delivery method is also disclosed, comprising loading orders (e.g. parcels, food or grocery payload) into container(s), loading container(s) into storage compartment(s) in an autonomous delivery vehicle, dispatching the vehicle to a delivery site, automatically dispensing the container(s) and returning the vehicle to a delivery hub.
Patent GB-2559395-A (GB)
Title: High resolution MS1 based quantification
Inventor: YUE XUAN
IPC: H01J49/00
Filed: 2017-02-03
Abstract: A data independent acquisition (DIA) method of mass spectrometry is performed as a chromatographic peak of a sample elutes. The method comprises performing a plurality of MS1 scans and at most 2 sets of MS2 scans, wherein the MS1 scans are interleaved throughout each of the sets of MS2 scans such that the MS1 scans provide a mass chromatogram of the sample. Each of the MS1 scans comprises scanning precursor ions of the sample across a precursor mass range of interest using a mass analyser operated at a higher resolution. Each set of the MS2 scans comprises segmenting the precursor mass range of interest into a plurality of precursor mass range segments, wherein for each precursor mass range segment, the precursor ions within that segment is fragmented and an MS2 scan is performed with the mass analyser operated at a lower resolution. The method allows high resolution identification and/or quantification of the sample to be carried out in the MS1 domain with unfragmented precursor ions.
Patent GB-2566924-A (GB)
Title: Positioning system
Inventor: MICHAEL PAUL ALEXANDER GEISSLER
IPC: G06T19/00
Filed: 2017-07-27
Abstract: A motion tracking system configured to determine a rendering of a simulation object representing a real object in a real environment, the positioning system comprising: an imaging device such as a head mounted display(HMD) mounted to the real object such as a person and able to capture a series of images of a plurality of irregularly positioned markers located in the real environment; an image processing unit communicatively coupled to the imaging device for receiving the series of images; the image processing unit being configured to determine the real location of the real object by: creating a three-dimensional model of a constellation formed by the markers visible in the series of images; and mapping the patterns of markers visible in successive images captured by the imaging device to the model and thereby determining the motion of the imaging device relative to the markers; and to determine the rendering of the simulation object so that the rendering mimics the determined motion of the imaging device.
Patent GB-2565336-A (GB)
Title: Method for seismic data acquisition and processing
Inventor: JOHAN ROBERTSON
IPC: G01V1/38
Filed: 2017-08-10
Abstract: A method for simultaneous source seismic data acquisition and/or processing wherein seismic recordings are obtained using at least two different sources A, B. The sources are encoded relative to each other to enable the separation of the sources above a certain frequency, e.g. 10 Hz. Below that frequency, the data acquisition and/or processing is carried out without performing such separation of the sources A and B. Instead, the low frequency part of the recordings are treated as originating from a single effective source C. The high frequency contribution to the recordings can be separated into contributions from individual sources A and B using any simultaneous source separating method, e.g. the signal apparition method. These low and high frequency parts of the recordings can be combined into a full bandwidth dataset.
Patent GB-2549915-A (GB)
Title: Completion systems with flow restrictors
Inventor: JOHN E BRITT
IPC: E21B34/06
Filed: 2016-01-22
Abstract: A method of completing a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes: placing a lower completion assembly that includes a flow device to provide fluid communication between the lower completion assembly and a production zone associated with the lower completion assembly; placing an isolation assembly with a packer above the lower completion assembly for isolating an annulus between the lower completion assembly and the wellbore; placing a flow restriction device above the packer; setting the flow restriction device in the annulus to restrict flow of fluid through the annulus; and setting the packer after setting the flow restriction device.
Patent GB-2558977-A (GB)
Title: Method for production of fatty acids
Inventor: FELIX SAMUEL SIROVSKI
IPC: C11C1/02
Filed: 2017-09-10
Abstract: A process for production fatty acids comprising: adjusting pH of a saponifiable material to a value above pH 7 by adding alkaline material; saponifying all saponifiable material by passing alternate electrical current through the material, wherein the said step of saponification occurs in a saponification reactor; acidulating the saponified material by adding acid to pH value below 4; isolating obtained free fatty acids from aqueous layer. The saponification reactor can be an ohmic heater. Also claimed is a saponification reactor comprising at least two electrodes contained within a cylindrical vessel having inlet and outlet ports at opposite ends; wherein one electrode is electrically and mechanically connected with the vessel wall and is a neutral point connected to earth; wherein the second electrode is electrically isolated from the first electrode and is connected to a single phase of an electric power supply. A reactor assembly comprising three saponification reactors connected in series or in parallel is also disclosed.
Patent GB-2567220-A (GB)
Title: Solid cyanoacrylate compositions
Inventor: RORY BARNES
IPC: C09J175/04
Filed: 2017-10-06
Abstract: A curable composition, solidified in stick-form, comprising [i] a cyanoacrylate, selected from ethyl cyanoacrylate, butyl cyanoacrylate, beta-methoxy cyanoacrylate and combinations thereof and [ii] 1-60 wt% thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). Also disclosed is a method of preparing the curable composition and a pack comprising the curable composition solidified in stick-form and a container holding the composition wherein the container has a mechanism for expelling the curable composition solidified in stick-form.
Patent GB-2553724-A (GB)
Title: Pressure balanced transducer assembly and measurement tool
Inventor: JUNHUAN ANG
IPC: G01L27/00
Filed: 2015-07-02
Abstract: A transducer assembly including a rigid transducer housing. The transducer housing has an interior space and defines a transducer socket and a pressure balancing cylinder. A transducer device is fixedly mounted within the transducer socket. A pressure balancing piston is reciprocably mounted within the pressure balancing cylinder. A pressure balancing fluid and an electronics assembly are contained within the interior space. The electronics assembly is operatively connected with the transducer device. A measurement tool including a tool body and one or more transducer assemblies. The tool body defines one or more pressure balancing body passages extending between mounting pockets in the tool body. The transducer housings define one or more pressure balancing housing passages extending between the interior space and the exterior of the transducer housings. At least some pressure balancing body passages and some pressure balancing housing passages are in pressure communication with each other.
Patent GB-2554316-A (GB)
Title: Cell Lines
Inventor: RYAN CAWOOD
IPC: C12N7/00
Filed: 2016-05-27
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a cell which constitutively expresses cytotoxic virus polypeptides (e.g. VSV G or Gag-Pol). The invention also provides plasmids/vectors and kits for use in the production of the cells. Furthermore, the invention provides a process for producing retroviruses using the cells of the invention.